ENSCO, the world's second-largest offshore driller, fired a man for trying to report it had dumped thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals into the Caribbean Sea, at the direction of management, the worker claims in court.

Indian police have filed murder charges
against two individuals who allegedly set a 16-year-old girl on fire on
December 23, after the victim succumbed to her injuries and passed away
on New Years Eve. The two suspects are closely connected to the people
accused of gang-raping the 16-year-old, who was pregnant at the time of
her death, and may have burned her alive in order to punish her for
going to to the police.

SPIEGEL published two pieces
this morning about the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations (TAO) division,
aka premier hacking ninja squad. According to Snowden documents, TAO
has a catalog of all the commercial equipment that carries NSA
backdoors. And it’s a who’s who of a list. Storage products from Western
Digital, Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung have backdoors in their firmware,
firewalls from Juniper Networks have been compromised, plus networking
equipment from Cisco and Huawei, and even unspecified products from
Dell. TAO actually intercepts online orders of these and other
electronics to bug them.

True, however, women’s value is often reduced to her attractiveness,
whereas men’s value is tied with what he does. For example, Barbie is a
fashion doll. He-Man is a protagonist with tons of adventures, and even
the dolls are considered “action figures” because they DO something. One
is passive, one is dynamic. Also, one’s strength is their value to
others. The other’s strength is actual strength. Both are designed for
the male gaze.

"The lady looked at me,” said Vindiola. “I thought she was going to put money in the kettle. She came up to me and said, 'Do you believe in God?' And she says, ‘You're supposed to say Merry Christmas,' and that's when she hit me."

Totally Christian, yo. Also followed up by a completely journalistic approach of polling random people over "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays."

BP fired a top executive after warning her that braiding her hair and wearing dashikis made her colleagues "uncomfortable," and that she should do so only "during 'culture day' [or] black history month," the former West Coast CFO claims in court.

This can only be appropriate if it was otherwise unprofessional (for example, unkempt dreads). And even that is a slippery slope because what is considered professional for women is typically designed to keep them in a strictly defined gender box.